Initiative for Dark Matter in Europe and beyond (iDMEu) kick-off meeting

10 May 2021, 14:00 → 12 May 2021, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE)), Elena Cuoco (European Gravitational Observatory), Federica Petricca (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), Florian Reindl (HEPHY & TU Vienna), Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)), Jocelyn Rebecca Monroe (University of London (GB)), Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu), Silvia Pascoli (Duke University (US))

iDMEu is a recently-created initiative supported by ECFA/APPEC/NuPECC (JENAA) that aims to create a 'public place' where researchers working on the Dark Matter problem from very different communities can talk to each other and identify cross-fertilization opportunities for mutual benefits.

The scope of the initiative is very broad: particle theorists, particle experimentalists, cosmologists and astrophysicists from different sub-communities and different backgrounds will be invited to participate. We do not want to replace existing community efforts but instead help them connect, broaden their view and increase their visibility by other communities.

This is the first kick-off meeting where the different communities meet virtually, get exposed to each other’s work, challenges and needs, and begin cross-talk discussions and activities.

Please register if you'd like to attend and be able to access the Zoom information on Indico.

Live captioning for this event has been provided by AI-Media, and it has been funded by the ERC Starting Grant DARKJETS (GA 679305). 

The data privacy notice for this event can be found at this link.  

iDMEU kick-off meeting live notes.pdf

Recording_Day_1

Recording_Day_2

Recording_Day3_ClosingSession.mp4

Recording_Day3_DMQandA.mp4

Recording_Day3_Outreach.mp4

Monday 10 May

14:00 → 14:30 Introduction

14:00 Welcome and introductory words from iDMEu proponents

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE))

20210510_iDMEu_Kickoff.pptx-3.pdf

14:10 Introductory words from JENAA

Speakers: Andreas Haungs, Karl Jakobs (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE)), Marek Lewitowicz (GANIL)

1.APPEC.pdf

1b.ECFA.pdf

1c.NUPECC.pdf

1.JENAA.mp4

14:30 → 16:10 Community talks: Community talks Day 1

Convener: Federica Petricca (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

14:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments based on nuclear recoils

Speaker: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

2.Baudis.mp4

baudis_idmeu_may21.pdf

14:55 Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments based on electron recoils

Speaker: Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago)

3.Privitera.mp4

3.Privitera.pdf

15:20 Axions and Axion-like particles

Speaker: Bela Majorovits (MPI for Physics)

4.Majorovitz.mp4

iDMEu_axions.pdf

15:45 Galaxy formation, including numerical simulations

Speaker: Justin Read (University of Surrey)

5.Read.mp4

5.Read.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:10 Community talks: Community Talks Day 1, Part 2

Convener: Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

16:30 Primordial Black Holes and gravitational wave probes of dark matter

Speakers: Dr Bradley Kavanagh (LPTHE, Paris), Dr Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)

6.CroonKavanagh.mp4

6.Croon-Kavanagh.pdf

16:55 Dark Matter in Large Scale Surveys

Speaker: maria archidiacono

7.Archidiacono.mp4

7.Archidiacono.pdf

17:20 The activities of the Dark Matter Working Group

Speaker: Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge (GB))

iDMEu LHC DM WG activities, challenges & interactions.pdf

17:45 The activities of the LLP WG and Community, in terms of Dark Matter

Speaker: José Francisco Zurita

9.Zurita.mp4

LLP_WG_Community_iDMEu.pdf

Tuesday 11 May

14:00 → 15:40 Community talks: Community Talks Day 2

Convener: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)

14:00 Dark Matter Indirect Detection (photons and neutrinos)

Speaker: Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)

1.Weniger.mp4

talk.pdf

14:25 Dark Matter Indirect Detection (charged particles)

Speaker: Nicola Tomassetti (Perugia University & INFN- Perugia)

2.Tomassetti.mp4

Tomassetti_iDMEu_11May2021_IndirectDM.pdf

14:50 Dark Matter Indirect Detection (antinuclei)

Speaker: Kerstin Perez (Columbia University)

3.Perez.mp4

KPerez_iDMeu_20210511.pdf

15:15 Dark Matter at extracted beam lines

Speaker: Timothy Knight Nelson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

4.Nelson.mp4

iDMEu_21.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Community talks: Community Talks Day 2, Part 2

Convener: Silvia Pascoli (Duke University (US))

16:00 Dark Matter Theory and Paradigmatic Models

Speaker: David Marsh

5.Marsh.mp4

Paradigmatic models.pdf

16:25 Dark Matter and/in the Early Universe

Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)

6.Kamionkowski.mp4

idme2021.pdf

idme2021.pptx

17:00 → 18:00 Breakout sessions

Breakout sessions will be announced on Zoom.

Breakout session #1: Future and uncovered community topics for iDMEu
Breakout session #2: FIPS, accelerators and cosmology
Breakout session #3: Data sharing in direct detection experiment
Breakout session #4: [TBC after discussions of day 1/2]
Breakout session #5: [TBC after discussions of day 1/2]

Wednesday 12 May

14:00 → 15:20 Outreach: Outreach: short talks and discussion

Convener: Antonella Del Rosso (CERN)

iDMEu-kickoff.day3.a.LD.mp4

14:00 Outreach Exercise

We will involve the audience in the live creation of a 1-min. video about Dark Matter to be used on Social Media.

Speaker: Clara Nellist (Radboud University Nijmegen and NIKHEF (NL))

14:45 The "Dark Matter Day"

Speaker: Barbara Warmbein (DESY)

DMDay_Warmbein.pdf

14:50 The webdocumentary "La Matière Noire"

Speakers: RIchard TAILLET (LAPTh, Annecy), Sabine Crepe-Renaudin (LPSC-Grenoble, CNRS/IN2P3)

tribute.pdf

14:55 The activities of the IPPOG concerning DM

Speaker: Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

IPPOG-DarkMatter-20210511.pdf

IPPOG-DarkMatter-20210511.pptx

15:00 Phantom of the Universe

Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Planetarium 5-4-21_short.pdf

15:05 Q & A

15:25 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:45 Dark Matter Q&A

Convener: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)

15:45 How do the CMB peaks tell us that there is matter that interacts gravitationally and is not baryonic?

Speaker: Mr Wayne HU (Chicago)

1.Hu.mp4

WayneHu.pdf

16:15 Is there a strong theoretical motivation to search for dark matter lighter than WIMPs but much heavier than axions?

Speaker: Prof. Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2.Krnjaic.mp4

iDMEu-talk.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Closing session

17:00 The Dark Matter Data Center within the ORIGINS center of excellence

DMDC_iDMEu.pdf

17:20 Summary of the breakout sessions

Speakers: Bela Majorovits (MPI for Physics), Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE)), Florian Reindl (HEPHY & TU Vienna), Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padua)

iDMEu breakout session - FIMPs.pdf

iDMEu_breakout_session_hardware.pdf

iDMEu breakout session_ Uncovered topics.pdf

17:40 Closing and next steps